Too little too late? Colombian police colonel gets house arrest 20 years after burning suspect’s pen

[Judi Lynn]

Too little too late? Colombian police colonel gets house arrest 20 years after burning suspect’s penis
Oct 14, 2014 posted by Adriaan Alsema

Twenty years after burning a kidnapping suspect’s penis, a Colombian police colonel was sentenced to six years house arrest for torture on Tuesday.

Retired Colonel Luis Enciso was convicted for the torture of a kidnapping suspect in 1994 when the police official and a colleague tried to get the suspect to confess by burning his reproductive organ with matches.

More than 20 years after the crime and seven years after the Inter-American Human Rights court condemned the Colombian state for torture, a Bogota court confirmed prosecution allegations that the police official had tortured victim Wilson Gutierrez.

According to Gutierrez, he had been asked to come to a Bogota coffee shop on August 24, 1994 by local businessman Ricardo Dalel, who the victim suspected of criminal activity. On arrival, he was arrested and taken to the local base of the UNASE, a now-defunct police unit to fight extortion and kidnapping.

While being interrogated, Dalel allegedly held down the victim while Enciso burnt the suspect’s penis with matches and shoved a broom handle up his anus.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/little-late-colombian-police-colonel-gets-house-arrest-20-years-burning-suspects-penis/

[Louisiana1976]

1. The sentence Enciso got is too little too late. They should make the punishment fit the crime and do

to him what he did to the man he tortured.